Question about what Obama just said.

[SciFiBoy]

TheRealMafoo said:

SciFiBoy said:

 

All Humans Have Basic Rights

you dont get it do you, we pay taxes, taxes are used to benefit us, these benefits from our taxes include healthcare, education, police and the military, basic rights the government provide are Health, Education, Shelter, Protection, Privacy and a degree of Personal Freedom (they let you do what you want within reason)

 

Those are not basic rights. Basic rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

life meaning no one has the right to take it away from me, liberty meaning no one has the right to indenture me, and the pursuit of happiness, meaning I have the freedom to do whatever I like, provided it does not infringe on others rights.

It's a little deeper then that, but for this argument, that's good enough.

So you have your list and I have mine. Let's say tomorrow, everyone just stops working. for a year, no one does anything productive.

How do I get healthcare? How do I get educated? If those are rights, they should be inherent. If no one works, those services (not rights) go away. The rights I laid out are still there, because they are rights.

Heathcare is not a right.

Let's say tomorrow, we find the tech and stuff they have in Star Trek, everyone can have whatever they need and humanity becomes more intrested in space exploration as we live in a Utopian society

so then, everything becomes a right, rights evolve with humanity, the more we can do and give to our fellow man, the more we should